Next Week in Music | Sept. 30 – Oct. 6 • The Long List:...

Goodness, gracious, great balls of fire — on a cake! The one and only Jerry Lee Lewis would have turned 89 today. Talk about a lot of candles. And...

Next Week in Music | Sept. 30 – Oct. 6 • New Books

The Tragically Hip go undercover on your coffee table, Fleetwood Mac dream on, The Stray Cats howl, Linkin Park start again, The Hold Steady do it for the kids...

Next Week in Music | Sept. 30 – Oct. 6 • On TV

Remember the American Music Awards? Well, they're back. Sort of. Apparently, there hasn't been an AMA ceremony since 2022 — not that anyone noticed or cared — but that...

Ethel & Allison Loggins-Hull Will Persist This December

Acclaimed string quartet Ethel have announced the Dec. 6 release of their eighth album Persist, for which the group reconvened with dynamic flutist Allison Loggins-Hull. Celebrating the courage, patience...

Next Week in Music | Sept. 23-29 • The Short List: 24 Titles You...

Canadian icons. Minneapolis veterans. British rockers. New York legends. Australian weirdos. Irish popsters. Danish garage-punks. Texas troubadours. And they're just the first leg of this multi-stage musical travelogue. Fasten...

Next Week in Music | Sept. 23-29 • The Short List: 24 Titles You...

Canadian icons. Minneapolis veterans. British pop-rockers. New York legends. Australian weirdos. Irish popsters. Danish garage-rockers. Texas troubadours. And there's plenty more where they came from on this musical travelogue....

Next Week in Music | Sept. 23-29 • The Long List: 550 Releases On...

Happy 67th birthday to the one and only Nick Cave. I was overjoyed to see him a couple of years back on his Carnage tour with Warren Ellis. I'm...

Next Week in Music | Sept. 23-29 • 19 New Books

Unlike some people, I don't hate Taylor Swift. And even if I did, I wouldn't tweet it all in caps. Having said that, I'm not sure we need three...

Next Week in Music | Sept. 23-29 • On TV

Can you feel that? That's right; today is the official start of fall. And along with that little nip in the air, there are some timely changes on the...

Pat Metheny To Visit Kitchener’s Centre In The Square

Centre In The Square in Kitchener, Ont., will welcome world-renowned guitarist and composer Pat Metheny to its stage for the first time this November. With an astonishing career spanning nearly...

And The 47th Annual Schmolaris Prize Goes To…

Well, it's that time of year again. The time when Canadian music lovers congregate reverently in front of their screens and devices to celebrate the greatest independent artistic achievement...

Kensington Market Jazz Festival Announces Lineup

Cue the scatted syllables and snapping fingers: The Kensington Market Jazz Festival returns to the streets of Toronto the weekend of Sept. 27-29. And when it arrives, it won’t...

Next Week in Music | Sept. 16-22 • The Short List: 28 Titles You...

Two things I noticed about next week's new releases: 1 | Even though there are about 100 fewer titles in total, the number that I want to hear went...

Next Week in Music | Sept. 16-22 • The Short List: 28 Titles You...

Two things I noticed about next week's new releases: 1 | Even though there are about 100 fewer titles in total, the number that I want to hear went...

Next Week in Music | Sept. 16-22 • The Long List: 460 Releases On...

Music, like life, has its ups and downs. After watching the new-release counter slowly but surely creep from 300 up to 550 over the past month, I was a...

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